Just now ran thru the ncurses interface you get with dpkg-reconfigure
exim4.config
On question you are asked is if you want to put a different domain on
outgoing email.... I chose yes and inserted `newsguy.com'
I never saw a way to rewrite the lefthand side of outgoing email.
I need it to be `reader' instead of my UID (harry).
That is, my outgoing `From: ' line and `envelope' info needs to say:
rea...@newsguy.com and so then the return-path will have the right
address.
I'm on a small home lan with single user on my localhost. I have a
fictitious domain `local.lan' so, `ha...@2xd.local.lan' will be
meaningless on outgoing mail. And, of course, will fail if anyone tried
to respond to `From: ' line.
So, where is that done in exim config? (The domain part of the
rewrite is apparently handled during dpkg-reconfigure exim.config)
Here is the ncurses screen that handles the domain name change:
─────────────────────┤ Mail Server configuration ├──────────────────┐
The option to hide the local mail name in outgoing mail was enabled.│
it is therefore necessary to specify the domain name this system │
should use for the domain part of local users' sender addresses. │
│
Visible domain name for local users: │
│
newsguy.com_________________________________________________________│
│
<Ok> <Cancel> │
│
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Contents of /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf:
dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='2xd.local.lan;local.lan'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
(**** this line below should handle the domain rewrite
but what about the uid being rewritten?)
dc_readhost='newsguy.com'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='10.0.0.0/24;192.168.2.0/24'
(smarthost munged)
dc_smarthost='xxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx:587'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
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